The relationship between trade policy and industrialization has provoked muchcontroversy. Can trade policy promote economic growth in developing countries?Those... » 

The relationship between trade policy and industrialization has provoked muchcontroversy. Can trade policy promote economic growth in developing countries?Those actively working in the area are becoming increasingly sceptical aboutthe conventional advice given by international policy advisors andorganizations. This volume builds upon earlier theoretical and empiricalresearch on trade policy and industrialization but is the first crosstheboardattempt to review developing country experiences in this realm for twentyyears. The experience of fourteen developing countries in the 1970s and 1980sis assessed by the contributors each of whom have a detailed understanding oftheir countrys recent experience. «